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Mawkishness

noun
1.
Insincere pathos.  Synonym: bathos.
2.
Falsely emotional in a maudlin way.  Synonyms: drippiness, mushiness, sentimentality, sloppiness, soupiness.





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"Mawkishness" Quotes from Famous Books



... invoked to help us in evading difficulties instead of conquering them. Love in any genuine form is strong, vital and warm-blooded. Let it not be confused with any flabby substitute. Take a parallel case. Should we, because of the mawkishness of a "Princess Novelette," deride the beautiful dream that keeps ages wondering and joyous, that is occasionally caught up in the words of genius, as when Shelley sings: "I arise from dreams of thee"? When foolish people make a sacred thing seem silly, let us at least ...
— Principles of Freedom • Terence J. MacSwiney
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... into mawkishness; none the less, Nancy felt a slave to her former friend, who, for whatever reason, seemed to have grown hypocritical and spiteful. When next the girl called, she was told that Miss. Lord had left ...
— In the Year of Jubilee • George Gissing
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Words linked to "Mawkishness" :   corn, sentimentalism, mawkish, schmalz, schmaltz, shmaltz, emotionality, sentimentality, bathos, emotionalism


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